Chhoriyan Chhoron Se Kam Nahi Hoti Movie Review: Satish Kaushik’s production is a victim of its own stupidity

Chhoriyan Chhoron Se Kam Nahi Hoti is a Haryanvi film co-produced by The Satish Kaushik Entertainment and Zee Studios. It is directed by Rajesh Amarlal Babbar.

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Producer-director Satish Kaushik’s maiden Haryanvi production, Chhoriyan Chhoron Se Kam Nahi Hoti, has been advertised as “first grand Haryanvi film.” Kaushik, who hails from Mahendragarh in Haryana, calls the film an attempt to revive Haryanvi cinema, an industry that is struggling to make a mark, courtesy the audience’s lack of interest in watching the cinematic portrayal of Haryana and its culture.

By “grand,” the makers mean “big-budgeted.” For a film coming from Harywood (as some call the industry), Chhoriyan Chhoron Se Kam Nahi Hoti appears to be made on a decent budget – the scenes are well-lit, the sound design is reasonably well, songs sound nice and the star cast is fairly popular. Add to this a special appearance by former Bigg Boss contestant Sapna Chaudhary, who the Internet hails as the Haryanvi dance queen.

But big budgets don’t make great movies! At its heart, Chhoriyan Chhoron Se Kam Nahi Hoti is the story of a girl who fights against gender bias in the society, especially her father’s, to become an IPS officer. No matter how stereotypical the concept sounds but in a country that has sexism ingrained in its very roots, stories like these must continue to be told, provided they hit the right chord.

“I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries,” the late American-Italian director Frank Capra had once said. Capra’s quote, in the fewest possible words, describes all that is wrong with this Rajesh Amarlal Babbar directorial.

Under Babbar’s shoddy direction, actors appear burdened – on one hand, they have to get the Haryanvi accent right and on the other, they have to emote. While Aniruddh Dave (Vikas, the protagonist’s love interest) and Jaanvi Sangwan (the protagonist’s mother) shine in their respective performances, the rest of them rely largely on melodrama, probably expecting it to be passed off as acting. In many portions, they are hugely let down by the juvenile camera work – the old-fashioned ‘Zoom In’ shot keeps making regular appearances, making you wonder if you were really in 2019.

But the biggest of all culprits is the screenplay. There are too many fight scenes involving Binita Chaudhary (the protagonist, played by an over-expressive Rashmi Somvanshi). The actress is made to wrestle and box as well. The makers’ idea of women empowerment, maybe? The songs pop up every now and then and more often than not, they have little to add to the story. 30 minutes into the film and you can predict the twists and turns (you have to be generous to call them so) from miles away.

In an absolute ‘what was that’ moment, a lady IPS officer slams a man – who is in the police station for beating his undereducated wife – saying, “Shukar kar teri biwi padhi likhi na hai, modern aur padhi likhi hoti toh tere vaapas tamacha maarti.” I fail to understand how this scene, which makes total mockery of the subject that the film is based on, made it to the final cut. But more than that, I wonder why the film was made in the first place.

Chhoriyan Chhoron Se Kam Nahi Hoti, titled after Aamir Khan’s famous dialogue from his 2016 gem Dangal, was born out of an in-flight conversation between Kaushik and Essel Group chairman, Subhash Chandra, the film’s co-producer. But the film never takes a flight.

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Chhoriyan Chhoron Se Kam Nahi Hoti Movie Review: Satish Kaushik’s production is a victim of its own stupidityDescription:Chhoriyan Chhoron Se Kam Nahi Hoti is a Haryanvi film co-produced by The Satish Kaushik Entertainment and Zee Studios. It is directed by Rajesh Amarlal Babbar.Amman Khurana